THE COACH

This new resource it's for you and for your students. For you because there are a lot of P.E. teachers who are team sport coaches in their freetime or in their second job. 
Actually there're a lot fathers who think and act like experts and that behaviour can break a team. A parent is not a coach and he or she shouldn't say to the coach what he must do and they shouldn't give shouts to their child teammates.

I had found this in a web so I created my own poster with English rules:

 

Violence and aggression have consequences for children and youth like injuries, lack of respect, drop-out, lack of skill improvement, conflict, intimidation, lack of cooperation... Parents should not pressure their children, their children's team or coach.

Moreover I was thinking about an idea, I created my own poster (is the same but in English) and I design a new task for our students. You can show them the poster I created (or one that you would create) and they have to create their own poster with the same rules but personalizing it with drawings and colours about their own sport (their freetime sport) and give it to their coaches. Perhaps their coaches use it in the following matches^^

I think this could be useful for a lot of children, teachers, coaches and families.

▲ LINGUISTIC IMMERSION PROGRAMME

Hello! This is one of my compulsory posts for my English course. But it could be interesting for you. I must explain which is the best linguistic programme for Valencia from my point of view and explain why.

For me, the best model to teach languages in all of the Valencian Community (where the majority of children speak Spanish and then Valencian) is the Linguistic Immersion Programme because students learn with both official languages and morevoer it's possible to introduce English like another language for instruction too.

Our students must get a plurilingual competence and in this model languages are key because each language is studied as a subject and each language is used to teach other subjects (where you learn the content of the subject and the language content in an integrated way). 
Furthermore they can see that this new languages are useful for them because they apply the grammar and vocabulary that they learnt before and they create new knowledge.

The main objective of this method is to promote bilinguism. I mean, the development of communicative competence of students and proficiency in their second language (L2) in addition to their mother tongue (L1).

In the following PowerPoint you could see the different linguitic programmes and think about which are best for you.

Linguistic Normalization Plan from garfam

▲ EDUTOPIA. AN INTERESTING ARTICLE

Hello! I want to recommend you a website, edutopia.org

Actually this is a task of my English course. I have to talk about an article of that web. But truly I recommend this web to you because there're different interesting articles for teachers.

The article I chose is Back to School: 3 Question Activities to Connect Students, and  you can find it here: back-to-school-question-activities-students

This article is a good tool for the first seasons in a new school year, when students need to feel safe in class. That’s important if you want to have a community of learners.

It will be easier for your new students to begin to talk about themselves if you help them with some questions. Here there’re three activities that you can adapt to your students.

-   1. Student Pairs: What's Your Name?

Knowing the names of the classmates is key if you want  they enjoy and feel safe.

This activity consists in a speaking between two students.They have to say their name, a phrase and do something physical to greet. 

-    2. Small Groups: Who Are You?

You can ask your students questions that allow them to know things about their classmates like What kind of music do you like? or Where do members of your family come from? When is your birthday and where were you born?

-     3. Whole Class: How Many Of You...?

In this activity you ask a question and decide how you want the student to answer. It's better if they have to respond doing something physical.

Some questions could be:

(How many of you) play an instrument? Which ones? Play a sport? Which sports?...

If you want to read the complete article visit edutopia.org  So… you know. If you need ideas for your first day with a new group you can use these tools in your class.

BUT remember! You’re a P.E. teacher! You can add physical activities or adapt these!

FLASHCARDS

Here is the post I promised. In my English lessons we make different resources for teaching English. When we talked about flashcards I decided to do my own material. I searched for some pictures on the internet and then I printed them and plasticized them.
I want to show you the result of my work because I think it's a very useful resource. Of course you can do  it too!

(All you need is: paper, scissors, cardboard, printed pictures and lining paper)

In my opinion this is a great resource, but I think teachers should use it only when it's necessary because in the majority of the P.E. content students can learn by doing.

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